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John Carter Brown Library

THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901. Housed within the library's walls is an internationally renowned collection of primary historical sources pertaining to North and South America from the time of its discovery by Europeans (ca. 1492) until the end of the colonial period (ca. 1825).

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Topics & Subjects
3,167
CSAIP
1,257
Broadsides, etc
1,023
CPJCB
804
Indian linguistics
720
Argentine newspapers
618
Imprint 1815
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John Carter Brown Library
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John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
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John Carter Brown Library - Portugal and Brazil Collection
1,592
John Carter Brown Library - Argentina Collection
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John Carter Brown Library - German Collection
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portugal
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ramírez, francisco, 1786-1821
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peru (viceroyalty)
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spain
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buenos aires (argentina). cabildo
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Topics: CSAIP, Indians of South America, Imprint 1822
Title from caption and beginning of text
Topics: Rodríguez Erdoiza, Carlos, 1782-1839, CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1825
20 p. ;|c20 cm. (8vo) Year of publication appears before printer statement on title page
Topics: CSAIP, Guilds, Bread industry, Imprint 1835
John Carter Brown Library - Puerto Rico Collection
by Abbad y Lasierra, Iñigo, 1745-1813; Acosta, José J. (José Julián), 1825-1892
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Signatures: pi⁶ 1-63⁴ 64² (pi2, pi6 versos blank)
Topic: Imprint 1866
[4], xiii, [1], 154, [2] p. ;|c20 cm. (8vo) Et se trouve a Paris, chez Le Normant, libraire; ... Tilliard, libraires, ... Agasse, imprimeur-libraire, ... A Bordeaux, Beaume, libraire, ... A Marseille, Sube et Laporte, libraires. A Nantes, Guichard, libraire
Topic: Imprint 1805
[2], 46, [4] p. ;|c20 cm. (4to) Reprint; originally published: Madrid : Imprenta de Dobledo, 1808?
Topics: CSAIP, Imprint 1809
Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription
Topics: Sermons, German, Christian literature, German, Emblem books, German, Tobacco, Conversion, Idols and...
5 v. :ill. ;21 cm. (4to) Pagination of v. 1: xi, [1], 421, [7] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [4]. 436, [8] p., [5] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 399, [7] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 4: vii, [1], 423, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 418 p., [3] folded leaves of plates
Topics: Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs,...
5 v. :ill. ;21 cm. (4to) Pagination of v. 1: xi, [1], 421, [7] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [4]. 436, [8] p., [5] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 399, [7] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 4: vii, [1], 423, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 418 p., [3] folded leaves of plates
Topics: Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs,...
5 v. :ill. ;21 cm. (4to) Pagination of v. 1: xi, [1], 421, [7] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [4]. 436, [8] p., [5] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 399, [7] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 4: vii, [1], 423, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 418 p., [3] folded leaves of plates
Topics: Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs,...
5 v. :ill. ;21 cm. (4to) Pagination of v. 1: xi, [1], 421, [7] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [4]. 436, [8] p., [5] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 399, [7] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 4: vii, [1], 423, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 5: [4], 418 p., [3] folded leaves of plates
Topics: Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs, Booksellers' catalogs,...
John Carter Brown Library copy has volumes 1 and 2 bound together in contemporary full mottled calf
Topic: Imprint 1785
John Carter Brown Library - French Collection
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John Carter Brown Library copy has the Approbation and Privilege, intended to be bound as p. [2-5], 3rd count, misbound after p. xviii; Cioranescu gives pagination as 168 p
Topic: Imprint 1745
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Topics: Acosta, Ambrosio, CSAIP, Imprint 1827
[3], 4, 6-7, 9-12, [1] leaves ; 19 cm. (4to) Author is identified as Fr. Blas de Acosta in the approbation on leaf [2] recto
Topics: Zarate, Gabriel de, d. 1638, Catholic Church, Sermons, Spanish, Sermons, Imprint 1637
[3], 12 leaves ; 19 cm. (4to) Dated and signed on leaf [3] verso: 10. de diziembre 1637. Fr. Blas de Acosta
Topics: Raga, Luis de la, Election sermons, Sermons, Spanish, Sermons, Imprint 1637
[3], 16 leaves ;19 cm. (4to) Spanish text with Latin quotations
Topics: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Sermons, Imprint 1643
16 leaves ;19 cm. (4to) Signatures: A-D (A1 verso blank)
Topics: Processions, Religious, Imprint 1643
Translation of: Aromatum et medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium liber, Antwerp, 1582, itself a translation of: Tractado de las drogas. Burgos, 1578. French translation 1st published Lyons, 1602
Topics: Materia medica, Elephants
Translation of: Historia natural y moral de las Indias, and 1st published in French, Paris, 1598
Topics: Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America, Natural history
Translation of: Historia natural y moral de las Indias, and 1st published in French, Paris, 1598
Topics: Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America, Natural history
John Carter Brown Library - German Collection
by Acosta, José de, 1540-1600; Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. Historia natural y moral de las Indias. German
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Books 1-2 translation of: De natura Novi Orbis libri duo, and 1st published in German as: Geographische und historische Beschreibung der uberauss grosser Landtschafft America, Cologne, 1598; books 3-7 translation of books 3-7 of: Historia natural y moral de las Indias
Topics: Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America, Natural history, Imprint 1605
Translation of: De natura Novi Orbis libri duo
Topics: Natural history, Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America, Imprint 1598
Translation of: Historia natural y moral de las Indias; 1st published in French, Paris, 1598
Topics: Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America, Natural history
Translation of: Historia natural y moral de las Indias, and 1st published in French, Paris, 1598
Topics: Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America, Natural history
Translation of: Historia natural y moral de las Indias
Topics: Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America, Natural history
Translation of: De natura Novi Orbis libri duo, and 1st published in German as: Geographische und historische Beschreibung der uberauss grosser Landtschafft America, Cologne, 1598
Topics: Natural history, Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America, Imprint 1600
Originally published as pt. 2 of: De natura Novi Orbis libri duo. Salamanca, 1588
Topics: Indians of Mexico, Indians of South America
John Carter Brown Library
by Acosta, José de, 1540-1600; Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. De promulgando evangelio apud barbaros
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Originally published in Salamanca, 1588
Topics: Indians of Mexico, Natural history, Indians of South America, Imprint 1596
John Carter Brown Library - French Collection
by Acuña, Cristóbal de, 1597-; Gomberville, M. Le Roy (Marin Le Roy), sieur de, 1600-1674; Grillet, Jean, 1624-1677; Béchamel, François, 1637-1676
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Translation, by Marin Le Roy Gomberville, of: Nuevo descubrimiento del gran rio de las Amazonas. first printed Madrid, 1641
Topics: Teixeira, Pedro, approximately 1570-, Indians of South America, Imprint 1682
John Carter Brown Library - Portugal and Brazil Collection
by Acuña, Cristóbal de, 1597-; Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RPJCB
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"Memorial presentado en el Real Consejo de las Indias, sobre el dicho descubrimiento, despues del reuelion de Portugal", leaves 43-46
Topics: Indians of South America, Amazon River, Imprint 1641
John Carter Brown Library - French Collection
by Acuña, Cristóbal de, 1597-; Gomberville, M. Le Roy (Marin Le Roy), sieur de, 1600-1674; Grillet, Jean, 1624-1677; Béchamel, François, 1637-1676
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Translation, by Marin Le Roy Gomberville, of: Nuevo descubrimiento del gran rio de las Amazonas. first printed Madrid, 1641
Topics: Teixeira, Pedro, approximately 1570-, Indians of South America, Imprint 1682
John Carter Brown Library - Argentina Collection
by Acuña, Francisco de, d.1815
texts
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Title from caption and beginning of text
Topic: Imprint 1807
Signatures: pi² A-3N
Topics: Indians of North America, Indians, Indian linguistics, Indian linguistics, Indian linguistics,...
John Carter Brown Library - French Collection
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Translated from: John Adam's Defense of the Constitution, first published Philadelphia, 1787
Topics: Republics, Political science, Constitutional history, Imprint 1792
John Carter Brown Library - French Collection
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Translated from: John Adam's Defense of the Constitution, first published Philadelphia, 1787
Topics: Republics, Political science, Constitutional history, Imprint 1792
Verso of half title page reads: Paris.--Imprimerie de Fain, rue Racine, no. 4. Place de l'Odéon
Topics: Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Botanical gardens, Imprint 1825
Folded map, bound to face, p. [1], 2nd count, has title: "Carte generale du Senegal corrigée, et augmentée de plusieurs détails par M. Adanson correspondant de l'Acade[mie] r[oya]le des Sc[iences]. Dressée et executée par les soins de Philippe Buache 1756"
Topics: Mollusks, Natural history, Imprint 1757
Caption title; at head of title: Tribunat
Topics: France. 1800 Sept. 30, United States. 1800 Sept. 30, Imprint 1801
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Administración Principal de Alcabalas de San Salvador; Bromsen, Maury. fmo RIBRL
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Title and statement of responsibility from caption. Statement of responsibility precedes title
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Blank forms, Customs administration, Imprint 18--
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Administración Principal de Alcabalas de San Salvador; Bromsen, Maury. fmo RIBRL
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Title and statement of responsibility from caption. Statement of responsibility precedes title
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Blank forms, Customs administration, Imprint 18--
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Administración Principal de Alcabalas de San Salvador; Bromsen, Maury. fmo RIBRL
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A customs receipt issued to Eduardo Garcia of Leona, El Salvador
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Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Blank forms, Customs administration, Imprint 18--
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Administración Principal de Alcabalas de San Salvador; Bromsen, Maury. fmo RIBRL
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Title and statement of responsibility from caption. Statement of responsibility precedes title
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Blank forms, Customs administration, Imprint 18--
John Carter Brown Library - German Collection
by Adolphi, Christian Michael, 1676-1753; Heine, Samuel Gottlieb, 1683-1746. De Aere, aquis et locis Lipsiensibus; Freud, Heinrich, active 1745. De salubritate Silesiae; Grünwald, Christian Gottlieb, 1700-1755. De incolatus montani salubritate
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Expansion of Leipzig dissertations originally published in 1717, 1719, and 1721
Topics: Acosta, José de, 1540-1600, Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691, Piso, Willem, 1611-1678, Air, Water, Imprint...
John Carter Brown Library - Portugal and Brazil Collection
by Advogado da Lavoura e Comércio
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Signatures: pi² (pi1 + *-3*) (pi1, *1, pi2 versos blank)
Topics: CPJCB, Imprint 1821
232, [8] p. ;|c16 cm. (8vo) Privileges dated: Seville, 1693, suggesting that this work is a reprint of the Madrid, 1693 edition
Topic: Imprint 1752
In verse
Topic: Geography
Caption title
Topics: Agote, Justo Pastor, CSAIP, Freedom of the press, Church and state, Imprint 1827
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in red morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1686
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Topics: Pueyrredón, Juan Martín, 1777-1850, CSAIP, Imprint 1820
Originally published: Basel, 1556
Topics: Metallurgy, Mineral industries, Paleontology, Zoology, Imprint 1561
Imprint from colophon; place of publication follows the imprint date in the colophon
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in black morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1712
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
by Aguilar, Luis Antonio de , active 1707
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In the John Carter Brown Library copy, line three of the first numbered leaf has a printed papel label enmendation that reads "Vn" to correct the printed error beneath it that reads "duo"
Topic: Imprint 1707
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
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Topics: Guiridi y Alcocer, José Miguel, 1763-1828, Catholic Church, Lawyers, Priests, Imprint 1817
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Aguirre, Manuel, 1715-1768; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RPJCB
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Text in Spanish and Opata
Topics: Catholic Church, Catholic Church, CSAIP, Indian linguistics, Opata language, Teaching sermons,...
[2], 57, [5] leaves ;|c30 cm. (fol.) Spanish text with Latin quotations
Topics: CSAIP, Mapuche Indians, Imprint 1647
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in brown morocco
Topic: Imprint 1694
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in dark blue morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1697
Caption title
Topics: Carrasco, Pedro, CSAIP, Imprint 1823
Colophon on verso of leaf 68, 2nd count: Con licenca en Mexico: por la Uiuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1666
Topics: Catholic Church, Dominicans, Catholic Church, Confession, Mysteries of the Rosary, CSAIP, Indian...
Also attributed to Santarem: Sabin 76846
Topics: Santarém, Manuel Francisco de Barros e Sousa, Visconde de, 1791-1856, CPJCB, Imprint 1846
[28], 400 p. ; 20 cm. (4to) Two states exist of this work. In the first state: The first page of the Licencas (p.[21]) bears no catchword; the quotation from Ecclesiastes is printed at the head of the last page of the Licencas (p.[28]); the first page of text is unnumbered and the vignette is dated 1771. In the second state: the first page of the Licencas (p.[21]) bears the catchword Appro; the quotation from Ecclesiastes is printed in the center of the last page of the Licenças (p.[28]); the...
Topic: Pride and vanity
John Carter Brown Library - Portugal and Brazil Collection
by Aires, Matias, 1705-1763; Eça, Manuel Ignacio Ramos da Silva de, fl. 1778
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[8], 250, 391, [1] p. ;21 cm. (4to) First published : Lisbon, 1770., cf. Moraes
Topics: Buildings, Earthquake engineering
16], 400 p. ;21 cm. (4to) Originally published: Lisbon, 1752
Topic: Pride and vanity
xxxii, 373, [1] p. ;|c15 cm. (4to) Originally published: Lisbon, 1752
Topics: CPJCB, Pride and vanity, Booksellers' catalogs, Imprint 1778
"Carta do mesmo author sobre a fortuna", p. 299-335, has separate caption title
Topics: Pride and vanity, Imprint 1786
John Carter Brown Library - Portugal and Brazil Collection
by Alagoas (Brazil). Junta Provisória; Pará (Brazil : State). Junta Provisória do governo do Grão Pará; Portugal. Cortes
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11, [1] p. ;19 cm. (4to) Issued as item 14 in: Colleccão da correspondencia official das provincias do Brazil, durante a legislatura das Cortes Constituintes. Lisboa : Na Imprensa Nacional. Anno de 1822, a collection of 17 individually published items containing documents describing the reaction of Brazilian officials to the Cortes of 1821-22 held in Lisbon
Topics: CPJCB, Imprint 1822
John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
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[5], 10 leaves bcoat of arms ;19 cm. (4to) Spanish text with Latin quotations
Topics: Cofradía del Santo Crucifijo (Lima, Peru), Cofradías (Latin America), Holy Cross, Sermons,...
1 sheet ([1] p.) ;|c30 x 42 cm Title from caption and beginning of text
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1796
iv, 101, [3] p. ;|c20 cm. (8vo) Originally published anonymously: "Par un observateur," Paris, 1814, under slightly different wording. Gathering 7, bearing pages 91-101, appears to be a supplement to the book, printed on different paper after its completion, and bound in between leaf 6.5 and the errata sheet
Topics: Blacks, Blacks, Imprint 1815
Includes references to medical plants such as cayenne peppers, drakena bark (or Drimys winteri, Winter's bark) from South America, cascarilla, Jesuits bark, and balsam
Topics: Hot peppers, Drimys winteri, Cascarilla, Cinchona bark, Balsam poplar, Fever, Botany, Medical,...
John Carter Brown Library - German Collection
by Alberti, Michael, 1682-1757; Homann, Johann Christoph, 1703-1730; Homann, Johann Christoph, 1703-1730. egr RPJCB; Ebersperger, Johann Georg. egr RPJCB
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Title illustration: Herbalist is presented with gifts from a native of Asia and America each; signed: Ioh: Chr: Homann Inven: Ioh. Georg Ebersperger sculpsit Noribergæ
Topics: Medical climatology, Dissertations, Academic, Imprint 1725
Dedication on p. [2] by the editor: Georgius Tannstetter Collimitius
Topics: Geography, Medieval, Booksellers' catalogs